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trouble with vm-visit-imap-folder

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From: tristero
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 19:18
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I'm running vm 7.17 and I want it to talk to a local imap server. I
have the following in ~/.vm:


 (setf vm-imap-server-list '("imap:localhost:143:inbox:login:me:*"))

where 'me' is actually my username.

When I do vm-visit-imap-folder, two odd things happen, one minor, one
major: 

- The minor problem is that tab and ? are broken if there's more than
  one matching item for whatever I've typed so far.  In that case it
  says 'arithmetic error' in the mini-buffer.  If the entry so far is
  unique, tab and ? work as usual.  The mouse-driven folder selector
  shows the same behavior.

- The major problem is that once I successfully select a folder, vm
  always lists 0 messages.  Other imap clients handle these folders
  properly.  Likewise, if I visit the file directly, with
  vm-visit-folder (it's a local file, so I can do this), everything
  works as it should.  I need to use the imap interface rather than
  direct visiting because the underlying files may be modified behind
  vm's back (in particular by procmail).


How can get this working?  I really don't want to have to learn
pine... 

Thanks -
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